Can Labour Make Expensive Promises?
Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards
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4.7 • 910 Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
In last week’s podcast, the Shadow Education Secretary, Bridget Phillipson, outlined her plans for childcare. But how will they be paid for? Do Labour dare to give details in advance of an election? Will such details help Labour win — or will they become a vote losing ‘tax bombshell’?
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| 0:00.0 | I'm I'm Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics, the weekly, what am I say, weekly, please, twice weekly, podcast with me, Steve Richards. |
| 0:39.7 | Thank you so much for tuning in wherever you are in the UK and indeed around the rest of the world. And as ever, we've got a lot to cram in |
| 0:47.3 | our time together. I'm going to reflect a bit if that's okay with all of you. |
| 0:54.6 | Obviously a bit on the protocol, but we've looked a lot at the protocol. |
| 0:57.9 | We've got some questions on the protocol and the implications. |
| 1:01.8 | So less on that. |
| 1:02.6 | I want to reflect more on some of the thoughts that were triggered from me. |
| 1:07.6 | I've got loads of emails as well about the interview I did with Bridget Philipson, |
| 1:13.3 | Labor Shadow Education Secretary. |
| 1:17.1 | So I'll be talking about that. |
| 1:19.3 | The interview we did and Bridget had to rush off and I had to rush off so we didn't have time to reflect together. |
| 1:25.6 | So I want to do a bit of that if it's okay with all of you and widen it to one of our |
| 1:31.4 | familiar themes in the podcast about tax and spend and its significance and whether you can |
| 1:38.2 | say anything before an election and so on. |
| 1:41.6 | Anyway, a bit of that, a few notices. |
| 1:45.4 | Then over to some of your brilliant questions. The debate continues. The debate continues about the DUP, about Kyrs Stama and |
| 1:53.9 | Jeremy Corbyn and what that symbolizes or portends. So plenty of debate within our rock and roll politics cooperative. And of course, |
| 2:04.8 | we go to Scotland via your brilliant questions. The SMP leadership contest is underway. And I will |
| 2:13.1 | reflect a bit more on all of that. And I know you will too. I'm already getting lots of emails |
| 2:18.4 | about that and Scotland. So yeah, and other things too. So pour a large glass of whiskey or white |
| 2:27.4 | wine or get running or rowing or baking because we got a lot to get through in our time together. |
| 2:33.3 | If it's all right with all of you, |
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